The BEST episodes of When Louis Met
Every episode of When Louis Met ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of When Louis Met!
When Louis Met... is a series of documentary films made by Bafta award-winning film-maker Louis Theroux. In the series, Theroux accompanies a different British celebrity in each programme as they go about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he does so. His episode about the DJ and charity fund-raiser Sir Jimmy Savile (When Louis Met...Jimmy) was voted one of the top fifty documentaries of all time in a survey by Britain's Channel Four. In another episode ("When Louis Met...The Hamiltons"), the disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine were arrested following false allegations of indecent assault during the course of filming.
#1 - The Hamiltons
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/11/2001
Louis follows the former Tory MP and his wife as they try to make a living as "objects of curiosity". The film features Louis on the sofa with a tipsy Christine, and following Mr and Mrs Hamilton when they are arrested over an alleged sexual scandal (both were cleared later).
#2 - Chris Eubank
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2002
Louis joins the ex-boxer at home, in the ring and on a trip to buy jodhpurs. Eubank attempts a tongue twister and pontificates on being a role model for children.
#3 - Ann Widdecombe
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2002
A prickly encounter with the Conservative politician in which Louis upsets her by asking about her possibly non-existent sex life and hears about her love of poetry and cats.
#4 - Paul & Debbie
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/2001
Louis joins Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee in their home beside the River Thames and on the road as the magician appears on Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook and his wife launches a ballet company.
#5 - Max Clifford
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/2002
Louis meets the PR guru/media manipulator as he handles Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell and child star Declan Galbraith and organises a charity do involving Westlife.
#6 - Keith Harris and Orville in Panto
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2002
Louis meets the ventriloquist who no longer enjoys the TV light entertainment limelight (and can't hide his bitterness about that) but is still earning a good living. He has a flash car, an ex-model missus, a large home and a role in Crewe's pantomime.
#7 - Jimmy Savile
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/2000
Louis visits 73-year-old Jimmy Savile, the miner who became a TV and radio star.